Mark Vlasic served as a prosecuting attorney in the trial of Slobodan Milosevic and helped train Iraqi judges serving on Saddam Hussein's tribunal. He discusses similarities and differences in the two ...

Found guilty in 2009, he had been serving a 22-year sentence but was released for health reasons at the request of the Serbian government. By Trip Gabriel Authoritarians have lost elections before, ...

This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. Scott Simon is away. I'm Susan Stamberg. The former Serbian leader, Slobodan Milosevic, was found dead in his prison cell at The Hague today, apparently of ...

Justice knocked at six in the evening last Thursday for Slobodan Milosevic. It was St. Vitus’ Day, a date steeped in Serbian history, myth and eerie coincidence: on June 28, 1389, Ottoman invaders ...

The deportation of Slobodan Milosevic to the International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague last week was hailed as a triumph for the rule of law. “A momentous event for international justice,” said ...

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - U.N. judges on Wednesday sentenced two former Serbian spymasters who worked for Yugoslav ex-President Slobodan Milosevic to 15 years in jail as it beefed up their initial ...

KPCC's Special Correspondent Kitty Felde talks with Terree Bowers, an LA lawyer who prosecuted the war crimes case against former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic. As Editor-in-Chief of our newsroom, ...

(AMSTERDAM, Netherlands)-- Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav leader, who was branded "the butcher of the Balkans" and was on trial for war crimes after orchestrating a decade of bloodshed during ...

Supporters of the late Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic paid their respects at his grave Friday, 10 years after he died in The Hague where he was on trial for war crimes. Known as the "Butcher of ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands – A heart attack killed Slobodan Milosevic in his jail cell, according to preliminary findings from Dutch pathologists who conducted a nearly eight hour autopsy on the former ...

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from The Hague where former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic was arraigned today before the United Nations war crimes tribunal. Milosevic denounced the court, ...